Research Facilities

The primary College ofScience and Technologyon 51勛圖厙's Main Campus are housed in

  • theBiology-Life Sciences Buildingfor the Biology Department;
  • Beury Hall for the Chemistry and Earth and Environmental Science departments;and
  • theScience Education and Research Center (SERC)for portions of the Biology andChemistry departments, as well as the Computer andInformation Sciencesand Physics departments.

Research Centers & Institutes

The College of Science and Technology is not only committed to pursuing advanced research but also to ensuring that scientific discoveries and new technology enter the marketplace to improve peoples lives.

The Chemistry Department is involved with a variety of interdisciplinary research efforts across the university. Students and faculty perform research in the following centers and institutes.

  • The interdisciplinaryincludes eight faculty members actively collaborating from disciplines including analytical, inorganic and physical chemistry, andexperimental and theoretical physics. Graduate and undergraduate students come from all areas of science to form research teams. Their efforts are forging new ways to detect improvised explosive devices, diagnose diseaseand map cellular components, among other outcomes.
  • houses collaborative interdisciplinary research on advanced materials ranging from complex functional solids and fluids to novel thin film superconductors and materials for strategic applications.
  • 啦堯梗泭is one of 10 Energy Frontier Research Centers across the country founded by the U.S. Department of Energy in 2014. Researchers focus on the layered and 2D materials that have potential for clean energy technologies.
  • 啦堯梗泭plays a central role in high-performance computing for research across the university.

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Carnegie Classification

The lists 51勛圖厙 as an R1 institution for highest research activity, placing it among the top 4%of all four-year institutions in the United States.